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RE: Article praises FAU; slams Sun Belt
(06-30-2013 02:33 PM)WKUYG Wrote: (06-30-2013 02:08 PM)Seminole Indian Wrote: (06-30-2013 12:28 PM)BlueRaider0x0 Wrote: (06-30-2013 12:02 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: (06-30-2013 11:46 AM)BlueRaider0x0 Wrote: CUSA is adding La Tech who went 9-3 last season, MT who was 8-4, UTSA that went 8-4, and FCS team Old Dominion who have gone 10-3 and 11-2 the past two seasons. So I agree, CUSA got some markets and no good football teams.
1) La Tech is rebuilding last year
2) UTSA's schedule last year was not comparable to other FBS teams (They went 8-4 by playing USA, Texas State, Idaho, NMSU, 2 FCS teams, and 2 Div II teams). They might be slightly ahead of some of the other moveups, but not so much. We shall see how they finish this year. I'm not expecting much.
3) Appy and Georgia Southern did quite well over the last few years in FCS. Old Dominion is a good FCS program. There's no evidence they'll perform any better than Appy or Ga Southern.
La Tech, WKU and MTSU were good adds. Although La Tech isn't going to be very good this year.
UTSA, Old Dominion, UNCC, FAU, UNT, and FIU were not.
Ark State and ULL will be the best teams of CUSA or the Belt for the next two years.
La Tech, historically, has a good football program. They were a quality add for CUSA period. Old Dominion is just as good an add as App St. and GA South in my opinion. They don't have the history that the other 2 have but they have been tearing it up in FCS ranks and their fan support is absolutely incredible.
Don't act like the Belt has all these great adds as well. I mean, Georgia St., Idaho, NMSU? Now ASU, GSU, and Texas St. are really good adds, in my opinion.
I don't think either Arkie St. or ULL will be as good as Tulsa this year. Arkie St. is rebuilding but ULL should be really good.
Really not true at all..........last year they were rebuilding.
As far as losing Aplin, anyone who attended ASU practices a few years ago left talking about Philip Butterfield, not Aplin, and there are good reasons. It was obvious to everyone that Butterfield was the better QB, and Aplins would either transfer or spend his carrier at ASU as Butterfields backup.
Granted Butterfield is not as mobile has he was before his injury's, but it was his arm strength, accuracy, toughness and leadership that made him #1.
Malzahn ( who he had committed to when Malzahn was at Tulsa) made the decision this past season to let him get totally healthy, thn let him take over this season. He is listed as a senior he will have no problem getting a 6th year, and his skills may fit Harsins offense better than Aplins.
Of course Butterfield has to beat out some other challengers, all of whom are considered better prospects than Aplin, and there is a little Parade All-American in the mix that will dazzle the SBC no matter who starts.
Bottom line this ASU team is 10+ points better than last years version.
That's totally BS Aplinis the best QB to EVER play at ASU and you are trying to make people believe there was a better QB on the bench but the coaches chose to keep him there.
Then you go on to say there are other challengers???? If you have a QB that's better than the best QB to ever play at ASU and other QB's that might challenge him...WOW ASU must have more collective talent at QB than any school in FBS.
Do you honestly know how stupid those comments by you sound?
Actually, if my memory serves me correct I was one of the few tooting Aplins horn in those days. Not that I, or anyone that watched ASU in practice, or talked to the coaches, thought he could beat out Butterfield, but I did feel that ASU fans who had written him off on The Den, were selling him short. He had grit, but Butterfield had that and everything else.
Aplin, who was actually less talented than his predecessor , was player of the year because ASU won the Championship. The guys at UL, Troy and ULM were just as talented IMO, but just did not have the weapons ASU had, again IMO.
While I do not think Butterfield ( who was the most heralded QB recruit in decades at ASU) will be the best QB in the SBC, he does match up well as far as his talent to the players I mentioned, and has more talent around him than Aplin had, and more importantly a the best OL in the SBC (something Aplin never really had).
The other candidates at ASU have the advantage of being healthy, have played (one has actually played and won at this level), and/or were recruited by Harsin for this offense.
The best QB I ever saw at ASU was Dewayne Brown, but that is not comparing apples to apples.
Anyone who knows anything at all about ASU knows my comments are far from stupid.
I just don't think you like what I have said, just like many here don't like the fact I have said ASU is far and a way the best team in the SBC, something that was painfully evident as the rebuilding year went along last year, and will be even more evident this year.
The only race in the SBC the next few years is for the #2 spot, and the gap between them and the rest of the SBC is going to get wider, and that is a fact. They are the next Boise (and not just of the South), no one else.
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Article praises FAU; slams Sun Belt
